1,004 private quotes tagged life

“Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.” — Al Lopez

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“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” — William James

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“Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.” — Leon Trotsky

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“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” — Omar Khayyam

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“I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.” — Rita Rudner

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“If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.” — Ron Paul

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“Life takes its path and sometimes there are people to blame. Of course there are bad people in this world. Good, bad, it happens unfortunately. But in a way I think if there was more focus on the good, more good would happen.” — Andrea Corr

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“Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.” — Gilda Radner

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“My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.” — Malcolm X

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“There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.” — Johnny Depp

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“The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.” — Carl Rogers

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“Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.” — A. J. McLean

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“Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.” — Robert E. Lee

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“One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.” — Robert A. Heinlein

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“I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.” — Grandma Moses

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“A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.” — Niccolo Machiavelli

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“Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.” — Zig Ziglar

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“I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.” — David Rockefeller

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“A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.” — Hugh Sidey

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“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.” — Robert A. Heinlein

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“If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.” — Arthur Ashe

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“God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.” — Bede Griffiths

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“If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples even though some of them still look down on me.” — Saint Patrick

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“I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do.” — Martin Lawrence

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